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Finding the Words to Describe a Disaster: The Lisbon Earthquake in 1755
- rozularen 7y ago"you dont have permissions to access...."
- HorkHunter 7y agoSince the release of Moonspell album "1755" and I occasionally read about this event! before that, I have never heard of the disaster!
- jofer 7y agoInterestingly, this earthquake is a key part of the evidence that a new subduction zone may be starting to form off the coast of Portugal. (E.g. Duarte et al, 2013 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joao_Duarte9/publication/237145222_Are_subduction_zones_invading_the_Atlantic_Evidence_from_the_southwest_Iberia_margin/links/00b4953262121edb89000000.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joao_Duarte9/publicatio... )
- arethuza 7y agoSo the Atlantic will go with the way of the Iapetus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_Suture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_Suture
- jofer 7y agoEventually! Don't rush on buying your future mountain view property, though. It'll take tens to hundreds of millions of years to happen.
- MS90 7y agoTalk about a perfect storm. Earthquake, fire, then when you thought it was finally over...the largest tsunami in history. That probably helped with the fire, at least.
- acqq 7y agoThis point seems to be missing in the text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake#Philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake#Philoso... "The earthquake and its aftermath strongly influenced the intelligentsia of the European Age of Enlightenment. The noted writer-philosopher Voltaire used the earthquake in Candide and in his Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne ("Poem on the Lisbon disaster"). Voltaire's Candide attacks the notion that all is for the best in this, "the best of all possible worlds", a world closely supervised by a benevolent deity. The Lisbon disaster provided a counterexample."